Introduction

The "Hotel Melanoma" moniker is a metaphor for living with my particular brand of cancer. Except for those lucky few of us deemed "cured", all we cancer survivors are guests of one of the many, many branded hotels in the "Hotel Carcinoma" chain. We can check out any time we like, but we can never leave. Meanwhile, let's be livin' it up; and please support cancer education, prevention, and treatment research.

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Monday, August 13, 2012

Kudos

My friend and mole mate Donna recently completed a Hotel Melanoma marathon event, twelve months of treatments with interferon (also known under the brand name Intron). I don’t have the authority to award Olympics medals, so she’ll have to settle for my congratulations and warped rendition of the Grateful Dead’s version of “Good Lovin’”…

Come on now, everybody ‘screen right, (got to stop sunnin’)
You may be weak or you may be blind (got to stop sunnin’)
But even a blind man knows when the sun is shining (got to stop sunnin')
So spread it on now (got to stop sunnin')
Turn off, turn off sun light (got to stop sunnin').

Gimme, gimme, gimme some sunscreen (good sunscreen)
Hey, now you got to have sunscreen (good sunscreen)
You need it, I need it, well you got to have sunscreen (good sunscreen)
Say it again now, good sunscreen.

Well turn off sun light, you won't regret it (good sunscreen)
You got to go for the good and get it (good sunscreen)
Everybody, they got to have sunscreen (good sunscreen)
Hey, now you got to stop sunnin'.

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About Me

My blog reflects an ongoing quest to find the good stuff and the funny stuff I've stumbled into during my stay at The Hotel Melanoma since receiving a Stage IIIc diagnosis in 2003. And to raise awareness about this relatively unknown brand of cancer. If you find it of value in your own quest, please share it with others and make a donation to your favorite melanoma nonprofit organization to fund melanoma education, prevention and treatment research. If you're wondering why my golden retriever, Jordan, is pictured here, well, he actually writes most of my posts and he's a lot better looking than me.

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Important Disclaimer!

At great risk of sounding like the corporate lawyer I used to be by making the perfectly obvious perfectly clear, here goes. Neither The University of Colorado Cancer Center nor any of its affiliated entities or individual persons (whether living, dead, or in some alternate plane of existence) has anything whatsoever to do with this blog. They don’t endorse it, sponsor it, approve it, or sanction it. Most likely they are completely unaware of it because they have better things to do than search the ‘net for blogs of patients, much less read them. Moreover, to the extent they are aware of it, they may not even like my writing or sense of humor. Nevertheless- and I’m acting solely and exclusively on my own here- I still hope you give them money to support the cause of melanoma (or other cancer) research. They do good work.